The JRC has created seven factsheets exploring how emerging technologies will help our energy-intensive industries to decarbonise while remaining competitive. These were produced in close collaboration with the Commission’s Directorate-Generals for Research and Innovation, Climate Action and Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, with feedback from policymakers and industry.
Our sectoral factsheets explore decarbonisation pathways for steel, cement, ammonia, pulp & paper, aluminium, ceramics and glass: sectors which are all known to be hard to decarbonise. In a dedicated workshop in Brussels in December 2025, we invited policymakers, industry representatives and contributors from industrial demonstrator projects to help refine the factsheets to reflect the needs of all concerned, and the feedback was incorporated into the final versions.
The factsheets identify concrete priority actions to steer research, innovation and public funding, to translate Europe’s climate and competitiveness ambitions into targeted investment. The factsheets show that with a good business case, many of the technologies required (and under research) are likely to find a relatively easy way to market.
You can read our factsheets on the seven industrial sectors here:
- Mapping the transition of the EU steel industry to carbon neutrality
- Mapping the transition of the EU pulp and paper industry to carbon neutrality
- Mapping the transition of the EU glass manufacturing industry to carbon neutrality
- Mapping the transition of the EU ceramic industry to carbon neutrality
- Mapping the transition of the EU cement industry to carbon neutrality
- Mapping the transition of the EU ammonia industry to carbon neutrality
- Mapping the transition of the EU aluminium industry to carbon neutrality